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I am interested in the market impact of offloads and accelerators. In my work, I can only realistically exploit capabilities that are common between AWS and GCP
by jeffbee 3y ago
I am interested in the market impact of offloads and accelerators. In my work, I can only realistically exploit capabilities that are common between AWS and GCP, since my services must run in both clouds. So I am not going to do any work to adapt my systems to GCP-specific performance features. Am I alone in that?
- wmf 3y agoThey're accelerating networking and block storage. Do you use those?
- jeffbee 3y agoOf course, but even if Google makes somehow networking 50% more efficient, I can't architect my projects around that because I have to run the same systems in AWS (and Azure, for that matter).
- wmf 3y agoIt appears to me that Google is just matching what AWS Nitro did years ago.
- jeffbee 3y agoThat's the flavor of it, but they didn't give us enough data to really think about. But the question stands generally for accelerators and offloads. For example would I go to a lot of trouble to exploit Intel DSA? Absolutely not, because my software mostly runs on AMD and ARM.